Alphacookie,
You said to look out in case a civilian prescribed you the medication. What did you mean by that?
Thanks!
If you are in the Navy, then you are required to go to the primary care provider assigned to you. In 99% of the cases, that will be a military doctor. If for some reason you are not near a military teatment facility, then you may be assigned a civilian doctor. In any case, any treatment must go in your military medical record.
I guess I was alluding to the case where some military members may "secretly" go under the radar to a non-military related doctor to avoid being disqualified from their field. Pilots are known to do this quite a lot.
I'll go ahead and post the next question under this topic:
What happens to the nuke who gets medication, if he's on a carrier? I've got a buddy who just found out he's getting meds and he's pretty scared about the future. Does he stay onboard? Go to another ship? Go to shore?
It depends on the meds. However, I do know for a fact, that antidepressants are nuke disqualifying(subs or surface nuke). If you have enough time on your contract or enlistment and if treatment is successful, you MAY get a waiver, after one year of no meds, to get back into the nuke field.
While on limited duty, you will not be allowed to do anything operational. Being on meds does NOT mean you are on limited duty. Although, most likely you will be at first. There are tons of people in the Navy that are on antidepressants. They just can not be a nuke or pilot. They CAN go into combat. Stupid, huh?
Hope this helps.